Found 8 collections related to Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

Launched around 2014, the Schomburg Center's Hip-Hop Archive Project aimed to engage activists, writers, collectors, and scholars in documenting the early movement from the mid-1970s. Schomburg Center staff Steven Fullwood and Lela Sowell led the effort. It is unclear when the Project ended. This collection consists of primary source resource materials such as oral histories with journalist Harry Allen and the Awesome 2 (Teddy Tedd, and Special K); promotional materials for Echo Park, "Hip-Hop Nation: Roots, Rhymes and Rage," and "Hip Hop Appreciation Week." There is also information about the Zulu Nation and KRS-One's Temple of Hiphop; a complete run of the International Graffiti Times; the Kid n Play comic series; and various journals, magazines, newspapers, articles, books, theses, and dissertations on hip-hop from various collectors, including James G. Spady and James Top. less

The Schomburg Programs and Playbills collection consists of thousands of programs, playbills, and other ephemera, spanning the nineteenth to twenty-first centuries, documenting Black theatrical, musical, and dance performances, as well as events put on by Black academic, community, religious, and political organizations. less

Claude McKay (1890-1948) was a writer and poet who was a major figure in the Harlem Renaissance. The Claude McKay literary property records consist of contracts, correspondence, permission requests, and royalty statements from McKay's literary estate, under the executorship of Hope McKay Virtue, Carl Cowl, and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. less

The Contemporary Afro-Mexican Photography collection, dated 2015 to 2021, represents the work of photographers and activists Hugo Arellanes, Toumani Cámara, Koral Carballo, Héctor Careaga, and Dolores Medel, who identify as afrodescendientes, Afro-Mexican, or Mexican. Their photographs focus on their own communities and identities, and illustrate Afro-Mexican customs, traditions, environment, and challenges of life in Mexico. less

William Seraile (born 1941) is a noted African American historian, pedagogue, writer, and community activist who was one of the earliest scholars to teach African American history within an academic department focused on Black studies. Seraile played a large role in the establishment of Herbert H. Lehman College's Black Studies department, and taught there for 36 years. His papers, dating from 1905 to 2025 (the bulk date from 1956 to 2024), document his academic career, research, writings, activism, and family through correspondence, research files, writings, clippings, flyers, family papers, scrapbooks, journals, posters, and literature and mailings from multiple community and political organizations and activist groups. less

Miriam Jiménez Román (1951-2020) was an Afro-Puerto Rican activist, scholar, editor, author and professor who was a pioneer in the field of Afro-Latin@ studies. Jiménez Román's papers include personal and professional correspondence, contracts, research materials and personal writings, all of which helped to create and define a space for the cultural appreciation of the Afro-Latin@ community. Her family's experience as a working class family that migrated from Puerto Rico to New York helped shape her critique of racism, sexism and classism that persist in this multidimensional world. Jiménez Román contributions to the study of Afro-Latin@ cultures continues to influence the study and greater dialogue surrounding the complex identities of the Afro-Latin@ diaspora. less